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Three chief executive officer participants at the World Economic Forum prepare public Internet blogs about their experiences in the ultra-exclusive retreat of the world's wealthy and powerful. Seated from left to right Loic Le Meur, CEO of Ublog, a Paris-based blog company; Yat Siu, CEO of Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based email service company and Joichi Ito, CEO of Neoteny Company Limited, a Japan-based venture capital firm.
PHOTO AND CAPTION BY THOMAS CRAMPTON

No... I'm not about to punch Loic. My fist is an expression of our solidarity. -- Joi

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IHT suggests that some think the isolation of Davos is necessary to think.
I think it brings some life to Davos that it is more open and on the beat with on-line connection to the world around. There has always been a lot of press there anyway.
This might even bring new ideas to Davos.

isn't it a bit arrogant to equal the *barbarians at the gates* to davos attendees?

and isn't it a blatant provocation, if not an insult to the multitudes, to assume that the barbarians charged with envisioning and materialing the new, emerging world order (put otherwise, charged with smashing capitalism) are the lucky, privileged, intellectual, powerful, connected ones at davos? isn't that fact alone contradicting the basic reasons of why we regard blogs as something more than static websites?

or is it that blogging and blogs shatter this distance between who's inside and who's outside?

"I will not share anything confidential," said Le Meur, adding that he had permission from the World Economic Forum to post the video. "But I do want to show people that even committed capitalists can share ideas."
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